Featured Max/MSP Artists
cycling74 is currently featuring a number of artists, researchers and educators that are developing and showing work on Max/MSP and Jitter. I highly recommend this site, as it is always inspiring to see such wonderfully rich experiences are being created with the beautifully low-tech Max solution. (But where was Perry Hoberman??)
One of my personal favorites was David Tinapple's piece, Debate Breath:
from the artist:
"This 15 minute video is a collection of all the silences found in the first 2004 presidential debate. In November of 2004 I analyzed the first presidential debate. I developed a software system (Max/MSP/Jtter) that could detect silence in the video track of the debate. It scanned the footage and produced over 1200 edit points where the audio became totally silent. These edit points were translated into a Final Cut Pro EDL used to make the actual edits. None of the editing was done by hand.
I was surprised to find that a full 15 minutes of the 90 minute debate was silence. Watching just these silences, it becomes apparent that although the "content" has been stripped away, there is still a real debate going on. This second, silent debate is one of gesture, glance, posture and interval. The silent debate is possibly more potent than the original one.
People reaction to this video are interesting, at first there is always laughter, which soon settles into a sort of stunned expression. People react to the sliences of these two men just as though they were talking. Whether you like or dislike one of them you find that absent their words, your feelings remain activated.
This video also appeared on the Chaise DVD in the spring of 2005."